Parker: Tough budget times manageable, not new

Tough budget times at the Pentagon and other Federal agencies aren’t new, and agencies with the right tools and partners can make it through. Wood Parker, President and CEO of TASC, joined me in studio today, despite the snow, to talk about how your agency can manage the budget storm that’s coming.

The tightening of the 1990s is the last time we’ve seen anything like this, Wood told me. “At that time, there was a huge consolidation of companies in the defense industry and in the intelligence industry. Now…we’ve seen a number of divestitures.”

You can hear my entire conversation with Wood Parker by clicking the audio link.

Francis Rose is the host of In Depth, which airs weekdays from 4-7 p.m. on 1500 AM in the Washington, DC metro area and online everywhere. Francis has covered all three branches of the federal government as a broadcast journalist since 1998. He joined Federal News Radio in 2006, and launched In Depth in 2008 as a daily show focused on connecting federal executives to the information they need to do their jobs better.